What is the word for a book lover?

Question

In English, a person who loves books is known as a bibliophile. The only translation that I can find for this word in Italian is bibliofilo which is deeply disappointing, given that the language is so adaptive. Is there a word which is not an Italian conversion of a word stolen from French by English for this sort of person?

Answer 1

or you can also say: amante di libri

Answer 2

you can say: "lettore affezionato"

Answer 3

BIBLIOFILO is a composed Italian word that comes, as all other neolatin languages, from ancient Greek: ( βιβλίον «book» + βιβλιο- philo- from philéō "to love")

If you want to say it in a more informal, friendly way: TOPO DI BIBLIOTECA (library rat)



Ciao,

Piero